Accessory Shortage at Xbox 360 Launch?

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Accessory Shortage at Xbox 360 Launch?

Here's one to chew on. If you believe the numbers reported at Kotaku, who got them from a GameFAQs post purportedly written by a Microsoft shareholder...

...okay, I know we're stretching the boundaries of believability here, but bear with me...

...then the official launch numbers for Xbox 360 hardware in the US are as follows:

1,098,200 consoles on November 22

20% of those are Core Systems

29 games available before year's end, but no launch-day specifics yet, and...

2,190,876 accessories on launch day.

What's really intriguing about this (other than we now have a numerical value for how many people are going to be riding the short bus home from Best Buy) is the number of accessories. How many accessories do YOU want for your 360? At minimum I'm buying an extra controller, a Charge and Play pack, and two rechargeable batteries. That's four.

What's two million divided by one million? Two. Is four more than two? Yes.

Remember the Dreamcast launch, when you couldn't get a VMU until about February? Remember trying to buy three GameCube controllers for Smash Bros., but you couldn't?